But McCain has a good record on the War on Islamism.
He understands totalitarianism
(having been its tortured captive
for half a decade).
He understands Islamism.
He understands the need for victory in Iraq.
He supported (indeed called for) the unpopular
2007 troops surge
that may, it seems, be bringing about a stunning victory.
Between McCain and the naive leftist Obama, for me there is no contest.
John McCain, age 29, 1965.
From here.
See full size.
U.S. military voters back McCain (survey, Oct 2008).
Survey of active-duty, National Guard and reserve subscribers and former subscribers to Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times.
68 percent McCain, 23 percent Obama.
McCain's torture by the communist Vietnamese war criminals.
Even Bush is naive about the world compared to
McCain.
Bush
absurdly said about Putin:
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul".
McCain understands better:
"when I looked at Putin's eyes I saw 3 letters: a 'K', a 'G' and a 'B'".
More here:
Obama is far-left. McCain is centrist.
Obama is a divisive, anti-war, orthodox, far-left candidate.
He has no bipartisan history.
He has no history of working with Republicans.
He is ranked the
no.1 most left-wing senator
in the Senate.
McCain is not far to either side.
He has a long history of working with Democrats.
He is a centrist.
He is the only centrist in this race.
Democrats expressing admiration for McCain.
From the McCain campaign.
They amusingly use a
Hillary Clinton clip from when she was running against Obama:
"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."
More ads based on this quote
here
and
here.
But the worst thing is that, until nominated at the age of 44,
she never said anything in her life about foreign policy.
She has shown little interest in it,
and seems to know little about it.
Her heart is in the right place, though (she is instinctively pro-America),
and no doubt she will learn.
She's not infected with the bias of youthful anti-Americanism like Obama.
She does not have a lot of nonsense to unlearn, as he does.
I would prefer if McCain had picked Joe Lieberman.
But it's an imperfect world.
I still wanted McCain-Palin to win.
Fact check
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Apparently she
did not support
the appalling Pat Buchanan.
Apart from anything else,
all the wrong people -
all the Daily Kos America-hating nuts -
hate Palin.
Really hate her
with an irrational sexist and snobbish fury.
So there must be something good about her.
These vile people at "Wonkette"
hate her.
And that's a pretty good recommendation for me.
Read their hateful comments, if you have a strong stomach.
And I know where
Mark Steyn
is coming from:
"Governor Palin is not merely .. "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy."
A final point. Many leftists have said:
If Obama loses, it will be because the American people are racists.
As if racism is the only reason people could dislike a left-winger.
Now with Palin we have the answer:
If Obama wins, it will be because the American people are sexists.
You only like Obama because you hate strong women! First Hillary. Now Palin.
Like the equally stupid
chickenhawk
and
Pascal's wager
arguments,
the best response is simply to agree and use the argument against them!
For some reason, Sarah Palin drives the left completely insane.
Nothing illustrates this left-wing madness better than a series of "jokes"
about raping Sarah Palin and her daughters.
In response to David Letterman,
Bill Maher .. jokes about the rape of Palin's 14 year old daughter, 12 June 2009.
And
search
and
search
and
search.
Victor Davis Hanson, June 14, 2009, has the best round-up of the whole sordid Letterman "Palin rape jokes" story.
Family Guy jokes about Sarah Palin's Down syndrome toddler Trig, Feb 2010.
And search.
Trig's sister
Bristol Palin
responds with dignity.
The McCain campaign:
"For Barack Obama to argue that he's experienced enough to be president because he's running for president is desperate circular logic and it's laughable. It is a testament to Barack Obama's inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin's executive experience managing a budget of over 10 billion dollars, and more than 24,000 employees."
Ed Morrissey points out that:
"running for office isn't executive experience".
David Warren on Palin's experience, September 03, 2008:
"As one of my Canadian correspondents wrote, "It is like giving the job to someone who was the mayor of Strathroy two years ago."
To which the reply is, had Barack Obama been mayor of Strathroy two years ago, he could begin to compete with Ms. Palin in management experience.
So could McCain and Biden for that matter."
Palin knows little about foreign policy:
In conclusion,
I enjoy how she annoys the left,
but
this lightweight interview
on foreign policy
shows that comparisons with
Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher
are nonsense.
They had a well thought out geo-political world view.
She doesn't.
However, McCain does, and so do
his excellent advisors
(many of whom I cite repeatedly throughout this website).
There will be a good team in the White House,
and Palin may learn in office.
Like
Barack Obama,
Sarah Palin goes to a nutcase church.
The difference is, her church isn't hard left and anti-American.
Her church doesn't make you worry about her political worldview.
It's just the kind of religious nonsense that so many people
unfortunately believe.
Obama's church
does make you worry about his political worldview.
Sarah Palin's church has repeatedly entertained
loony
Thomas Muthee.
Muthee believes in
"witches"
and has been
hunting "witches" in Africa
(where men, women and children accused of "witchcraft" are killed,
just like in Europe in the Middle Ages).
Thomas Muthee blessing Sarah Palin, 2005. "In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus! Every form of witchcraft, it will be rebuked in the name of Jesus. Father, make her way now. In Jesus' name, Amen."
What a loony.
McCain wants victory in the war. Obama doesn't care about victory.
So I'm a McCain fan, not a Palin fan.
And the one thing McCain gets right is the war.
McCain wants victory, an end to casualties,
and then it doesn't matter if troops stay on as in Germany and Korea.
He wants the troops home after winning,
and he argues that we are winning.
Obama, on the other hand, just wants the troops home.
He doesn't care if that means America loses the war.
He doesn't care if that makes a waste of all their sacrifice.
He doesn't care if that means Iraq descends into genocidal hell
and becomes a radical Al Qaeda state.
He doesn't care if that means the jihad is emboldened all around the world,
and millions flock to join a winning cause.
He just wants the troops home.
Joe Lieberman eloquently points out that if we had listened to Obama,
the Iraq War would now be lost,
Iran and Al Qaeda would be victorious,
a genocide of Iraqi Muslims would now be starting,
the US would be in retreat,
and the jihadis in Afghanistan and Pakistan would be resurgent and triumphant,
believing the tide of history was with them.
He points out that you can't withdraw from Iraq in defeat and then expect to win Afghanistan.
The opposite is more likely to happen.
From here.
"Where is the audacity of hope when it comes to backing the success of our troops all the way to victory in Iraq? What we heard last night was the timidity of despair."
-
John McCain, Feb 2008, on Obama's plans for Iraq.
"I am also dismayed that he never talks about winning the war - only of ending it. But if we don't win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president."
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John McCain, 21 July 2008, on Obama's plan for "ending" the war in Iraq.
Also here.
Someone tries to burn Sarah Palin's church, Dec 2008, while women and children are in it.
Left-wing terror?
Since 1995.
